Kokoro

KokoroNo collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Sosekis Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years. Kokoro, meaning heart, is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese

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it is the untold origin story of Britain’s female convicts

from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich

Includes portraits by Man Ray of friends and important protagonists of the period (Max Ernst

Now in paperback

From Tokyo to New York

for the Blu-ray edition

New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew

along with a full-colour original illustration by the cartoonist

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Extract on Peter Greenaway Sight on Sound Podcast # 112

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